On 2008-04-03, Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu April 3 2008 03:03:51 Matthew Johnson wrote: >> On Thu Apr 03 11:54, Andrea Bolognani wrote: >> > And stable is not fine for a desktop in general, because it has outdated >> > packages which are not what a desktop user wants. >> >> _you_ may want more up to date packages, but a lot of people are >> entirely happy with etch on their desktop. For example, both me and my >> mother. >> >> I'd also go as far to say that most corporate Linux desktops, to pick >> another example, would welcome the lack of change for 18 months. > > Stable is a poor solution for desktops because it doesn't support > recent hardware. For a long time now we've had to run Testing > mixed with the Unstable versions of xserver-xorg.*, nvidia.*, and > linux-image.* in order to support recent video and audio chips.
http://wiki.debian.org/EtchAndAHalf will solve that soon. Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
